Sandy roadsides, clearings, fields, shores, especially in disturbed areas of aspen and jack pine savanna. A European species first collected in 1952 in Emmet Co. and locally flourishing in the northern Lower Peninsula in the mid-1950’s, but not often collected recently.

The heads are ± racemose or paniculate, and the plants may be stiffly erect, barely 1 dm tall, or bushy-branched and much larger.